Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-16
THE ART EXHIBITION.
A Large and Successful Commencem
Display by the School of Design.


Display by the School of Design.
| At the L. B. Croker Art Gallery last
night the Sacramento School of Design
| held its second annual art exhibition. In
| all respects it was brilliant affair, and no
art classes in the State had more satis-
tween six and seven hundred ladies and
| gentlemen visited the rooms during the
| evening, and the expressions of pleasure,
surprise and pride in this Sacramento in
stltution were heard on every hand. There
are about six hundred pieces on exhibition,
over $50 being oil paintings, and every
piece the work of pupils of the school.
1t is impossible in the space al COM
mand to give any adequate descrip-
| ton OF the works, or point out
those of special excellence. The members
of the school have every reason to be ex-
tremely proud of their success. There have,
during the year, studied with the school
| fifty-two pupils in the regular day class
and siXty-tive in the Saturday class Had
| the entire III attended during all the ses-
slons of the year the exhibition halls would
not have been spacious enough to hold the
works. The great progress made by the
school in the year must be source Of hon
est pride to the instructor and stands as
high credit to his capacity. In the first ex-
hlbltion there was nothing with which TO
compare to judge of the advance made :;
this year judgment is based upon compare
son with the work OF last year. The pres
ent exhibition is twice as large as that of
1886, and far superior to it in results. In
portraiture the most marked advance is
apparent in drawing next in order of
excellence is the work of the sketch class,
which Ia foliage, rock and water tests has
achieved very superior results. The work
OF the Saturday class, which of course has
had but one-tifth the instruction given the
regular class, is disposed upon the west
wall of the second west alcove. All the
other walls are occupied by the portraits,
cast and figure studies and sketches of the
regular class. In the library room, in two
grand divisions. the major portion of the
work in oil painting is shown.
The great benefit the pupils have
received from being held first to
thorough course in drawing is here
made convincingly manifest. This section,
while attracting full attention, did not
withdraw the visitors from examination of
the drawings; both received about equal
critical examination. Many of the pupils
of the school were present, and it was
pleasure to note the expressions of pride
and qualification upon their countenances
as the public judgment was pronounced.
Such an urgent request was preferred for a
continuation of the exhibition, that it has
been resolved to keep it open to-day from
10 A. NJ. to P. NJ, and Saturday and Sun
day from 2 to P. M.-the usual gallery
hours-when the school halls will be open
to the public. There is no fee charged for
visiting the exhibition on the contrary, it
is the desire to have the largest possible
number of people to examine it, that the
public may inform itself upon the merits
and progress of the school. Visitors in ex-
aiming the portraiture will be aided by
the statement given last night that the
work was done in one and a half hours
sittings, with from three to five sittings for
picture; that the pupils sit and pose for
each other; that all the drawing was free
hand and without any mechanical aids,
and that the pupils have had, save in
very few cases, all their instruction in this
school